[OperationContract]
public void SubmitUserStatus(string username,string tweet)
{,// encode the username/password,string user = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username +":"+ password));,// determine what we want to upload as a status,byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("status="+ tweet);,// connect with the update page,HttpWebRequest request =(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml");,// set the method to POST,request.Method ="POST";,// thanks to argodev for this recent change!,request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;,// set the authorisation levels,request.Headers.Add("Authorization","Basic "+ user);,request.ContentType ="application/x-www-form-urlencoded";,// set the length of the content,request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;,// set up the stream,Stream reqStream = request.GetRequestStream();,// write to the stream,reqStream.Write(bytes,0, bytes.Length);,// close the stream,reqStream.Close();
}